Hayes' Path to the Presidency The Rise of Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Official engraved Presidential Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). Item Number: BEP19. Visit President Rutherford B. Hayes' wooded estate named Spiegel Grove, home of America's first presidential library. Tour the president's 31-room Victorian ... Rutherford B. Hayes ... Dates In Office ... March 04, 1877 to March 04, 1881 ... Age in Office ... 54 ... Birth - Death ... October 04, 1822 to January 17, 1893 ... Party ... The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congress set up a special electoral commission, handing the disputed ... The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at 11 p.m. ... Rutherford B. Hayes ... Rutherford B. Hayes (b. on October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio) was the 19th President of the United States. He served from 1877 to 1881 ... Rutherford B. Hayes was a remarkable President, not only for his efforts to re-unite the country after the Civil War, but also for the many 'firsts' attributed ... Hayes was an advocate of civil service reform. He believed in meritocracy, the idea that positions, especially in civil service and government, should be ... A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000 The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford ... Rutherford B. Hayes - The depression and its effects. Hayes took office in the midst of one of this nation's longest and most severe depressions. Farm prices ...